Salvaging success
When a tornado swept through the Sabine National Forest in March 2025, it left behind a trail of broken trees, downed limbs and hundreds of acres of damaged timber. But in just 28 days, the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, turned destruction into opportunity by mobilizing resources, assessing the damage and awarding two salvage stewardship sales to help…
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Pride of the north Texas prairies
Instead of a forest of trees, national grasslands are a sea of grass. (USDA Forest Service Photo by Greg Deimel)
A gentle sea of green stretches out in front of you, framed and occasionally broken by individual trees. A far cry from the usual view you might expect when visiting a national forest, where a dense canopy of towering trees would envelope…
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Tribal teens gain hands-on experience
All of the Tribal Youth Conservation Corps participants take a turn in using an increment borer to determine a tree’s age on the National Forests and Grasslands in Texas, summer 2022. The tribal crews learned about various forestry disciplines, including fire management, wildlife, timber, and…